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Opie Memorsndum + onitep stA.28 GOVERNMENT , DIRECTOR, FBI (44-10894) para: «=: 8/22/59 — t ap. DALLAS (44-739) b7eo a sopyacr’ INTEGRATION IM PUBLIC. SCHOOLS, DALLAS, CIVIL Biggs Re Dallas letter to Bureau, 4/24/59. An article appeared in the "Dallas Times Herald," a daily Dalias newspaper, dated May &, 1959, which reflected that tbe @guit by the Dalias School Board which was scheduled to go before the llth Circuit Court of Civil Appeals, Dallas, Texas, on May 13, 1959, has been postponed until the September, 1959 term of court due to illness on the part of ANDREW J. THUSS, Attorney for the n Dallas Echool Board. The "Dallas Morning News," Dallas, Texas, a daily Dali bewspaper, dated May al, 1959, reflected that Negro attorneys bad seeking immediate integration of public schools. This move in Dailas asked U. 8. District Judge T. WHITFIELD DAVIDSON to “enter order directing and requiring" the school board to comply with an April 16, 1958, integration order. The Dallas motion was filed in the U. 8. Clerk's Office in Dallas and was filed by Attorneys, including THURGOOD MARSHALL of New York City, Chief Counsel for the National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People, reques the hearing for May 25, 1959. | \ BvePYeu VSwsn 206 FMP FEUILLE FYVUL bE £20 VELL BU EAVUPRTUL BAY OV, “f The motion asks integration on the basis of a 1958 \ integration decision of now retired U. 8. District Judge WILLIAM H, ATWELL. The newspaper quoted one close observer, a Negro, as stating that the motion was to get the school board off a dead center course and get it moving. He remarked that it was ordered Go do something but hasn't done anything in a year and a half. School Board officials were reported to have stated they are unable to integrate until Dallas voters give approval, that if the Dallas School System integrates without the vote, it will lose at least two million dollars in State aid. The newspaper pointed out that a case in State Appeals Court to determine the conflict between Btate and mi laws is set :tos Sertember; SO in Eastland. bm, ft - Bureau Dallas. ab, _ ee 7 as fe: y — 2s ae 7 > 2 _ —= a0 Ld